The purpose is, to have a somehow quantifiable measure how hard it becomes to bootstrap Debian. Because the larger the central strongly connected component, the

The purpose is, to have a somehow quantifiable measure how hard it becomes to bootstrap Debian. Because the larger the central strongly connected component, the more software is involved in the bootstrap process and has to either be cross compiled or compiled with fewer build dependencies to break cycles. Ultimately I thought this graph to support the introduction of build profiles into Debian (now so happened with the Jessie release) as well as to promote that a tool like "botch" (you can `apt-get install` it) is necessary to automatically make this graph acyclic for you instead of doing this through year long manual work.